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Asteroid 2024 YR4, once a potential Earth threat, likely originated from the main asteroid belt's central region, a surprising origin for Earth-crossing space rocks, a new study finds.
In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...
When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first ...
The next waypoint on Psyche's voyage will be a flyby of Mars in May 2026. Officials expect Psyche to keep that date, which is critical for using Mars' gravity to slingshot the spacecraft deeper into ...
Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...
NASA's Lucy mission captured the highest resolution image yet of Donaldjohanson, the uniquely shaped asteroid.
NASA has released the first-ever high-resolution image of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, highlighting its unique ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...
Luuucy, 'splain that if you can! The first images from the #LucyMission's asteroid Donaldjohanson flyby show an elongated contact binary shape, with an odd narrow neck between the two lobes. More ...
Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4, once a potential Earth threat, ... "The data from our study will be used to assess the physical properties and shapes of potentially impacting asteroids, ...